epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

AD 69 XXV. YEAR OF THE FOUR EMPERORS Legion versus legion “A year … which well nigh brought the commonwealth to an end.” TACITUS, Histories, I, 11 From the moment ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alan Moorehead [Moorehead, Alan]

CHAPTER ELEVEN DURING the months of June and July neither side made any serious attempt to attack at Anzac, and while an uneasy stalemate continued there five pitched battles were ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Bruce Hoffman [Hoffman, Bruce]

“If it is accepted that the problem of defeating the enemy consists very largely of finding him,” General Sir Frank Kitson, arguably Britain’s preeminent expert on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, has ...

mobi |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Erwin Rommel

Sketch 29 Preparations for the attack of August 11, 1917. View from the west. Soon the bushes in front of us began to thin out and we advanced another hundred ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Frederick Kempe [Kempe, Frederick]

Lincoln scribbled furiously in shorthand as Kennedy continued to dictate, the words falling into perfect sentences and paragraphs. This means that if the United States and the Soviet Union become ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Mark Urban [Urban, Mark]

Dorsenne’s dispatch was crassly enciphered, as bad in its way as the General Montbrun letter of August 1811 that had proven vital to the breaking of the Army of Portugal ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Isabel George [George, Isabel]

Comfort for the Dying 9.30a.m.:With thirty floors still to negotiate before they reached ground level, Salty’s reluctance to leave Omar’s side became an inspiration to Donna and the other hopefuls ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-23 | Author:Lawrence Malkin [MALKIN, LAWRENCE]

As the pressure of producing more pounds slacked off, and apprehension rose about progress toward acceptable replicas of dollars, the prisoners amused themselves and even satirized their jailers in a ...

mobi |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Dickie, Iain & Jestice, Phyllis & Jorgensen, Christer & Rice, Rob S. & Dougherty, Martin J. [Dickie, Iain]

Deadly Melee Hawke’s 100-gun flagship, the Royal George, bore down on the 70-gun Superbe and sank it with a single, massive broadside at the waterline. It sank with all hands, ...

epub |eng | 2006-12-24 | Author:John English [English, John]

Emmanuel Mounier, the French Catholic personalist and founder of Esprit, had taught Trudeau to “see, judge, act.” It was now the time to act. That summer, Trudeau began to encounter ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Richard Overy [Overy, Richard]

* * * No. 52 OPERATION DESERT STORM 17 January – 28 February 1991 * * * The brief campaign in which the American-led Coalition compelled the Iraqi army of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-10-12 | Author:John Keegan [Keegan, John]

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epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Bolger

General David Petraeus took command on February 10, 2007. Within days, he was at Camp Ramadi, his first troop visit. “I’m so happy I could kiss you guys,” he exclaimed. ...

mobi |es | 2011-02-15 | Author:Antony Beevor

14 — «¡Todo para el frente!» El plan para la operación Urano, la gran contraofensiva soviética contra el VI ejército, tuvo una gestación insólitamente larga, si uno considera la desastrosa ...

mobi |es | 2011-08-21 | Author:Gordon Thomas

interminable en el que caía dormida, agotada, y se despertaba lentamente para empezar otro día gris en el que sufría dolores atroces; lloraba, pero las lágrimas no aliviaban la tortura ...